New Ulm weekly review., 1887-04-13
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Her father, sir, has been dead these
three years. / am a poor widow, and
have spent all he left me in trying to
cure the child, but it is OF no avail
Poor Jess! door Jess!
The stranger looked troubled
| heewas. To ride away from an inn
without paying his bill was bad
! enough; but to cheat a poor widow
in distress, for whose sick child she
had sacrificed her means of living,
| was,-well the act of a scroundrel.
! The .Oxonion wished he had never
left Oriel;h he feltso thoroughly ashamed
of himself. So genuine was his shame
that it might be thought he was fairly
on the path OF reformation, and would
therefore keep to it. But it was not
SO with him; and there are many like
him.
He was all right until he took am,
other sip at the wine which the host
ess had tempringly placed within his
reach, and which, at the moment he
had resolved to rob the poor woman
| no more, he, in pure absent-minded
| ness, lifted to his lips and unconscious
| ly drank. AS he put down the empty.
fagon he caught sight ofthe new moon
| through the window, and as his gaze
was returning to the fire it rested for
a moment on the patient pallid-faced
girl.
She was undoubtedly ILL.,, and he
sympathized with her. She was pref
| ty and he admired her. But the low
type of face, with narrow sloping fore
head, the furtive eyes, and the weak
willed mouth and chin, told her char
acter so Enthusiastically that; an idea
suggested itself to him which he well
coined with delight. A fig for his re-
solves! Here was a. way out of his
dificulties!"
"What is the time OF your daugh-
ter's attack?'
'"The fit will come to her at, eleven" ;"
II will cure her!'
s'Thou! Art thou a physician?''
II have studied with. the wisest
where wisdom dwells. Letyour daugh-
ter do as direct, and theague Wilde
part from her."
cart thou willing, Jess?" asked the
mother
The girl turned her head. but the
| strangers eyes were on; her; and she
whispered "Yes." 49,
"Then 1 will go back in a briefspace.
[ go to seek some potent herbs under
the rays Of the young moon."
The student went out laughing to
himself at his new device, and think
Ing over the part he was to play. He
walked down the garden, jumped the
palings. crossed the meadow, and fol-
lowed for a time the bank of the
stream, whose ripples cleaned with
the silver sprinkles from the moon
A leaf Of her b-robe1t he took, then a
small coltstoot and Jack-sauce- by the
hedge, then q four-leaved paris and a
twig OF broom. Then he returned to
the kitchen, ''looking unutterable
things" and laid his leaves on the
table, the coltsfoot at one end, and
the herb-robert at the other, the scorpi-
on grass and dog slmercury ineethe mid
die, with the broom next to the paris.
Then he put the leaves in cup and
rubbed them together for a. time,
whispering to himselfso as to be heard
by the invalid:
eta, zeta, theta, phi; kappa, delta,
lambda, pi; sigma, gamma, beta, mu
alpha, tau, epsilon, nu; psi, chi, upsi
lon, sho; kyklopedeia may the ague
gor"
Then he opened the window that
the moon might shine in the cup, and
he took out some of the leaves and
rolled them in strip of parchment
about the size OF cigarette paper
which he cut from his pocket book
Then he tied the roll with a silken
string and sealed it, but he did not use
his own seal, for he pressed on the
wax leaf of scorpion grass which he
had accidentally dropped onthe floor
IA piece of ribbon,'' he said to the
hostess-the first words he had ad
dressed to her since he entered with
the leaves-"and pen and INK anC
while she was gone he emptied the cup
on the fire.
To each end of his tiny cylinder he
tied q piece OF ribbon, and with the
pen and ink he scrawled on the parch
ment the Greek letters in his remark
able charm, repeating the words as he
did so.
s'Now give me thy wrist" he said te
the girl; and as he knotted the ribbor
hiseyes searched into hers and seemed
to look through them down every
nerve in her body.
"Wear that" he said, as he finished
the knot, "and the sickness will never
return to you. Rest and fear not
, Farewell till the dawn!"
And in great gandeur he stalked of
; to bed. A thing is not worth doins
| at all if it is not worth doing we'll, anc
this our student knew. To have stay
ed and watched for the result OF his
2 audacious piece OF foolery would have
been too severe a trial for him. So ht
, went to bed and laughed; and ther
!; somehow the laughter thinned away
!, And he was just begenning to reproact
} himself when he dropped off to sleep.
, In themorning there came knock
!; ing at his door.
"Who's there?"
, cit is long past dawn" said tn.
/ hostess.
:'What doyou want?'